Word Parts
What combining form means kidney?
NEPHR/O
What is the structural unit of the kidney?
nephron
What term means inflammation of the bladder?
cystitis
What procedure is the surgical removal of a kidney?
nephrectomy
What term means excessive urination?
polyuria
What combining form means pertaining to urine?
URIN/O
What carries urine from the kidney to the bladder?
ureter
What term means scanty urination?
oliguria
What procedure is the visual examination of the bladder?
cystoscopy
What procedure is the removal of waste products from the blood of patients whose kidneys no longer function?
dialysis
-URIA
Where is urine collected before it enters the ureters?
renal pelvis
What term means difficult or painful urination?
dysuria
What procedure means to suture the urethra?
urethrorraphy
What term is also known as bed-wetting?
enuresis
LITH/O
What carries urine from the bladder to outside the body?
urethra
What term means prolapse of the kidney?
nephroptosis
What procedure destroys a stone by using sound waves?
lithotripsy
What term means inflammation of the renal pelvis?
What suffix means enlargement or stretching?
-ECTASIS
What is the external opening of a passage?
meatus
What term means distention of a ureter?
ureterectasis
What procedure is the surgical fixation of the bladder?
cystopexy
What term means suppuration of the kidney?
nephropyosis